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​Sphinx from 'Ten Commandments' set unearthed in California sand dunes

The exodus of the Israelites from Egypt through the desert, a scene from the 1923 silent film version of 'The Ten Commandments', directed by Cecil B DeMille.
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AP|December 1, 2017

Archaeologists working in sand dunes on the central California coast have dug up an intact plaster sphinx that was part of an Egyptian movie set built more than 90 years ago for filming of Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 epic "The Ten Commandments."

A scene from silent version of the 1923 epic film 'The Ten Commandments', also directed by Cecil B DeMille. The Egyptian Pharaoh is surrounded by his guards as he prepares to lead his army forth.
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The 300-pound sphinx is the second recovered from the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes.